Fantastic weather welcomed pathologists from all over the world to San Antonio for the 100th annual USCAP meeting this week. Posters and abstracts by thought leaders and new comers alike accompanied innovations in industry technologies in an impressive trade show experience. We enjoyed connecting with old friends and meeting new ones, discussing how Pathagility’s SaaS…
In a couple of weeks, Pathagility is going to attend the USCAP 2011 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX. Are you? Whether you are associated with a pathology organization or you are a vendor, we would enjoy the opportunity of meeting you there. You can send us an email to info@pathagility.com or send us a DM on…
According to new research from Kalorama Information, the laboratory information systems (LIS) market should grow 6% annually over the next few years from its 2010 level of $800M. The report includes this interesting stat – labor accounts for more than 60% of the cost of producing test results. To drive down the percentage of manual labor needed to support the…
Why would community pathology groups choose a SaaS product over a traditional software package?? 1. TCO When doing a cost comparison between software products, one should factor in computer/server hardware, network, disaster recovery, backup mechanisms, IT support, and third party software to name a few. SaaS products eliminate the capital expenditures and include many of these items…
The healthcare IT arena is extremely chaotic. The systems that support this industry in most cases mirror this complicated environment. The physicians, hospitals and healthcare organizations that are answering the call to adopt systems that will help promote better patient care are looking for sophisticated systems that are simple to use. Simplifying the complex is easier said than done. …
Many pathology labs we talk with have purchased, developed and deployed FileMaker Pro database lab systems. This seems even more true in smaller independent and hospital labs due to cost and ease of deployment factors. We would like to hear from those of you that utilize FileMaker Pro. Here are a few questions for you… Overall, are…
For Christmas, Santa brought me an iPad (which I thought was very cool by the way!) I’ve been living vicariously through friends and business associates who were early adopters. Now that I have one and it is fully integrated into my daily life, I’ve started picturing how a device like this might be useful in the…
Normally we stay away from posts that are this Pathagility product focused, but every once in a while we just can’t help ourselves! We are proud of our ReportPath product/service and continue to recognize lots of application for it. ReportPath provides pathology laboratories and healthcare providers an integrated, web-based solution for storing, managing and distributing report data without purchasing a new LIS. Referring physicians have secure…
More than 140,000 industry professionals attended the CES11 in Las Vegas last week. Following up on our post Top gadgets at CES 2011 and impact on healthcare, check out this slide show via HealthcareITNews called Healthcare gadgets at CES11. The slideshow shows 5 healthcare gadgets featured last week and here’s a summary… 1. digital microscope 2. …
Check out this Newsbyte in the latest issue of CAP Today by Dr. Raymond Aller entitled, Interface workarounds offer fixes for common issues. In it, Dr. Aller refers to a few issues that arise in order-entry and results reporting interface processes between hospital or regional labs and their reference labs. Here are the issues he outlines… 1. …